Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 75 57
Rank change year-on-year -44 -18 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,329 1,497 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.67% 3.66% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.94% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 887 1,033 2,783
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +9.38% -1.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,212 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +4 659 £87,500 +1.45% 226
Work from Home -24 588 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -104 564 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -45 256 £66,250 -7.97% 130
North West -43 117 £67,500 -3.57% 76
South East -115 115 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -38 101 £70,000 -2.77% 31
South West -65 64 £65,000 -5.14% 35
Midlands -56 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East -1 38 £62,500 +19.05% 28
East of England -27 38 £63,750 +10.87% 20
West Midlands -29 32 £70,000 - 21
Scotland -77 29 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -57 25 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -25 8 £55,916 +9.64% 13
Northern Ireland -36 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.43%) Apache
3 18 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.28%) Confluence
5 15 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.98%) JBoss
7 11 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.75%) IIS
9 9 (0.68%) CMS
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.38%) Appian
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) Liferay
12 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.075%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.53%) Maya
4 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.38%) Endur
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.075%) Actimize
6 1 (0.075%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.075%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.075%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.075%) Quorum
6 1 (0.075%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.075%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 742 (55.83%) AWS
2 579 (43.57%) Azure
3 308 (23.18%) GCP
4 237 (17.83%) Serverless
5 173 (13.02%) SaaS
6 115 (8.65%) GitHub
7 111 (8.35%) Amazon S3
7 111 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
8 101 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
9 95 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 67 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
12 66 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
13 53 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 47 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (3.46%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.31%) PaaS
18 38 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (2.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.84%) Broadband
2 10 (0.75%) HTTP
3 8 (0.60%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
5 6 (0.45%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) DHCP
6 5 (0.38%) DNS
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.075%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.92%) NoSQL
2 175 (13.17%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (9.03%) MongoDB
4 114 (8.58%) SQL Server
5 75 (5.64%) MySQL
6 66 (4.97%) Relational Database
7 62 (4.67%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.93%) Redis
10 32 (2.41%) BigQuery
11 31 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (2.18%) Big Data
13 27 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (1.58%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.05%) Power BI
16 13 (0.98%) DB2
16 13 (0.98%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
19 9 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (13.47%) Git
2 124 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 86 (6.47%) GitLab
4 54 (4.06%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.69%) JIRA
6 42 (3.16%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.63%) JUnit
8 31 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 30 (2.26%) Selenium
10 29 (2.18%) CircleCI
11 19 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.35%) Mockito
13 17 (1.28%) Maven
14 12 (0.90%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.90%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.83%) Vite
16 10 (0.75%) JMeter
16 10 (0.75%) Postman
17 8 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (29.42%) Finance
2 364 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 163 (12.26%) Banking
4 104 (7.83%) Law
5 89 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 76 (5.72%) Retail
8 68 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (4.29%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.99%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.31%) Back Office
12 21 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.43%) Billing
13 19 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.35%) Advertising
14 18 (1.35%) Games
15 17 (1.28%) Legal
16 13 (0.98%) Marketing
17 11 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 465 (34.99%) Developer
2 346 (26.03%) Senior
3 274 (20.62%) Software Engineer
4 201 (15.12%) Architect
5 164 (12.34%) Lead
6 120 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 116 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 109 (8.20%) Java Developer
9 95 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 94 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
11 83 (6.25%) Java Engineer
12 76 (5.72%) .NET Developer
13 64 (4.82%) Software Developer
14 53 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.54%) Java Software Engineer
16 45 (3.39%) Lead Developer
17 43 (3.24%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (3.01%) C# Developer
19 36 (2.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 36 (2.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (22.95%) .NET
2 303 (22.80%) React
3 271 (20.39%) RESTful
4 223 (16.78%) Spring
5 216 (16.25%) REST
6 199 (14.97%) Node.js
7 195 (14.67%) Spring Boot
8 171 (12.87%) Kafka
9 118 (8.88%) AngularJS
10 96 (7.22%) .NET Core
11 91 (6.85%) gRPC
12 79 (5.94%) HTML
13 69 (5.19%) .NET Framework
14 68 (5.12%) CSS
15 65 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
16 61 (4.59%) ASP.NET
17 57 (4.29%) Vue
18 56 (4.21%) Django
19 52 (3.91%) Middleware
20 49 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 381 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 234 (17.61%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 97 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.93%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.63%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 24 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.66%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.66%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.66%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.28%) IoT
15 16 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
15 16 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.44%) Linux
2 22 (1.66%) Windows
3 16 (1.20%) Android
4 7 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.075%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (48.68%) CI/CD
2 547 (41.16%) Agile
3 518 (38.98%) DevOps
4 517 (38.90%) Software Engineering
5 374 (28.14%) Containerisation
6 325 (24.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 290 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (20.39%) Mentoring
9 259 (19.49%) Event-Driven
10 255 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 249 (18.74%) Test Automation
12 232 (17.46%) AI
13 205 (15.43%) Computer Science
14 188 (14.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 160 (12.04%) Scrum
16 156 (11.74%) Clean Code
16 156 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 153 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
18 149 (11.21%) TDD
19 148 (11.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 435 (32.73%) Java
2 367 (27.61%) Python
3 284 (21.37%) SQL
4 265 (19.94%) JavaScript
5 252 (18.96%) C#
6 214 (16.10%) TypeScript
7 122 (9.18%) Go
8 51 (3.84%) Scala
9 41 (3.09%) PHP
10 37 (2.78%) C++
11 34 (2.56%) C
12 33 (2.48%) Bash
13 28 (2.11%) Ruby
14 22 (1.66%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.58%) PL/SQL
16 15 (1.13%) PowerShell
16 15 (1.13%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.98%) Rust
18 9 (0.68%) Groovy
19 8 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 201 (15.12%) Degree
2 128 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (8.58%) Security Cleared
4 80 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.05%) CISSP
13 9 (0.68%) CISM
14 8 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.45%) PhD
16 5 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.87%) QA
2 30 (2.26%) GDPR
3 28 (2.11%) PCI DSS
4 25 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.90%) NIST
8 10 (0.75%) NCSC
9 6 (0.45%) GRC
10 4 (0.30%) EMIR
10 4 (0.30%) IFRS
10 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) WCAG
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 411 (30.93%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 409 (30.78%) Kubernetes
2 232 (17.46%) Terraform
3 86 (6.47%) Grafana
4 75 (5.64%) Ansible
5 36 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.81%) Kibana
7 14 (1.05%) Argo
8 9 (0.68%) HP Fortify
9 8 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.45%) Puppet
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.075%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 126 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.44%) Google
3 48 (3.61%) Oracle
4 45 (3.39%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.35%) IBM
6 17 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.20%) SAP
8 13 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 11 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 11 (0.83%) Software AG
10 10 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
10 10 (0.75%) Cisco
10 10 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.75%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.68%) Databricks
11 9 (0.68%) Splunk